随喜善行　林钰堂

随喜善举不嫌烦，因缘际会难测量；
熟能生巧利益广，虚怀无住增智粮。

跋

遇人行善，皆随喜赞叹。纵使重复，亦不予置评，良以因缘际遇难以预测，一概鼓励，方能使更多人得益。

修习慈善，接触众多品类，经历种种情况，自然增进行事之方便善巧，而能更适切地服务大众。但是要注意务实及谦卑，以免沦于营造形象、自命不凡等病态。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　二○○○年八月初一　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　养和斋　　　于加州

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Applauding Charitable Activities

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Applauding Charitable Activities　 Yutang Lin

Applauding charitable activities despite duplications.
Their chances and consequences are unpredictable.
Practice makes perfect to benefit more appropriately.
Remain humble and practical to glean grains of wisdom.

Comment:

When people are doing charitable activities, always applaud and praise them. Even though there are duplications one refrains from making remarks that could discourage the efforts. This is because the chances and consequences of such activities are unpredictable, and only by encouraging all such endeavors would there be more people benefited.

Engaging in charitable activities would put one in contact with many kinds of people and cause one to go through various situations; consequently one would learn expedient ways to serve others more appropriately. Nevertheless, one should strive to remain practical and humble lest one falls into the unhealthy practices of working on images and indulging in self-esteem.

Written in Chinese and translated on August 1, 2000
El Cerrito, California

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